酷兔英语

人教修订版高一英语下Unit 21 Body language
Reading教案

Teaching Aims:
1.Learn and master the following words and expressions:
Fold anger vary thumb crazy nod part hug bow palm shrug incredible pat get through chart tear down
2.Train the Ss’ reading ability, especially the skills of summarizing and scanning.
3.Encourage the Ss to communicate using body language.
Teaching Important Points:
1.Train the Ss to summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
2.How to get the Ss to master the two useful expressions: get through, tear down
3.How to let the Ss understand the body language in different countries and use them correctly.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1.Master the body language in this period.
2.How to summarize the main idea.
Teaching Methods:
1.Discussion before reading to make the Ss interested in what they will learn.
2.Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.
3.Discussion after reading to make the Ss understand what they’ve learned better.
4.Pair work or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1.the multimedia
2.a tape recorder
3.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
StepⅠ: Greeting and Lead-in
1.Greeting:
T: Good afternoon, everyone!
Ss: Good afternoon, teacher!
2. Lead-in:
T: (Sign the Ss to sit down without saying, “sit down, please.”). How do you do what I meant?
Ss: We know that by your gesture.
T: Yeah, sometimes we can express ourselves using gestures or facial expressions. When we are in kindergarten, there is a good song to express our feeling “happy”. Do you remember it? Now, let us enjoy it together. And I want to have your action.
(Enjoy this song with students. At the same time, according to the content of the song, let students act out together.)
T: Ok, very good! This song brings us back to our childhood. Do you like it?
Ss: Yes, we like it very much.
StepⅡ: Pre-reading:
T: Ok, class begin. Please turn to page 59, unit 21 Body Talk. Before reading, we will learn something together, “ways of communicating”.
T: If we want to make gestures good, we should know the names of each finger well. (Let students put up one of their palm: thumb index finger/forefinger, middle finger, ring finger, little finger)
T: Now, we will do some “guess” exercise for facial expressions. (According to the pictures to choose the best answer.)
T: Animals also have body language. (Show students some pictures)
T: In these pictures, they don’t use any words but body to show what they want to say.
StepⅢ: Reading:
T: Now, we begin our reading—Body Talk.
1. Fast reading
(Give Ss five minutes to read the text and then answer the answers for the questions on the screen.)
There are five topic sentences. Which paragraph is it for?
1). The way how people greet, touch, act varies from countries to countries. (Para.3)
2). Just like spoken language, body language varies from culture to culture. (Para.2)
3). Both words and body language can express how we think and feel. (Para.1
4). Smiles may be the most universally understood facial expression in the world. (Para.5)
5). Some gestures seem to be universal. (Para.4)
2. Careful reading
1). Let Ss read the first paragraph and answer the question:
Besides words, how can we know what a person is thinking or feeling?
by watching his or her body language.
2). Let Ss read paragraph two and three, and then fill the forms in the following.


country
meaning
eye contact
Some countries


Other countries


gesture
country
meaning
making a circle
with one’s
thumb and
index finger

Most countries
OK


money
生词表:
  • reading [´ri:diŋ] 移动到这儿单词发声  n.(阅)读;朗读;读物   (初中英语单词)
  • ability [ə´biliti] 移动到这儿单词发声  n.(办事)能力;才干   (初中英语单词)
  • childhood [´tʃaildhud] 移动到这儿单词发声  n.幼年(时代);早期   (初中英语单词)
  • paragraph [´pærəgrɑ:f] 移动到这儿单词发声  n.段;节 vt.将…分段   (初中英语单词)
  • spoken [´spəukən] 移动到这儿单词发声  speak的过去分词   (初中英语单词)
  • culture [´kʌltʃə] 移动到这儿单词发声  n.修养;文化;饲养   (初中英语单词)
  • universal [,ju:ni´və:səl] 移动到这儿单词发声  a.宇宙的;普遍的   (初中英语单词)
  • circle [´sə:kəl] 移动到这儿单词发声  n.圆圈 v.环绕;盘旋   (初中英语单词)
  • incredible [in´kredəbəl] 移动到这儿单词发声  a.不能相信的;惊人的   (高中英语单词)
  • communicate [kə´mju:nikeit] 移动到这儿单词发声  vi.通讯;传达;传播   (高中英语单词)
  • learned [´lə:nid] 移动到这儿单词发声  a.有学问的,博学的   (高中英语单词)
  • saying [´seiŋ, ´sei-iŋ] 移动到这儿单词发声  n.言语;言论;格言   (高中英语单词)
  • universally [,ju:ni´və:səli] 移动到这儿单词发声  ad.普遍地   (英语四级单词)
  • summarize [´sʌməraiz] 移动到这儿单词发声  vt.概括,总结;摘要   (英语六级单词)
  • facial [´feiʃəl] 移动到这儿单词发声  a.面部的,脸部的   (英语六级单词)